From mtang at snf.stanford.edu Tue Oct 12 16:34:41 2004 From: mtang at snf.stanford.edu (Mary Tang) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:34:41 -0700 Subject: Resist spill Message-ID: <416C6A11.8010002@snf.stanford.edu> Sigh... I really don't like writing these notes, but here goes... It appears that someone was trying to pour resist inside the Flammables cabinet. Yes, INSIDE the cabinet. There's resist (or some other nicely orange compound) in the channels of the top shelf, dripping into the channels on the second shelf, and with a nice, rather blood-like looking stain all over the bottom of the cabinet. There are even a nice set of glove prints on the front and back of the cabinet doors. (Goodness, it's almost like a murder scene!) To the best of our knowledge, this appears to have occurred last Thursday night or early Friday morning. Does anyone have more information that you might be willing to share? Better yet, would anyone care to own up to this, take responsibility for making a mistake? I should add that the flammables cabinets are only slightly exhausted as they are designed for storage -- they are NOT designed for chemical handling and so do not have adequate exhaust for pouring solvents. In fact, there is not adequate exhaust even for us to clean it up without evacuating the immediate area and donning SCBA's. So, unfortunately, until we can schedule it, the cabinet will remain messy. This is the part I don't like... the threats... .It seems that the person who did this is unaware of these hazards. If that person is willing to take responsibility, we will retrain on chemical handling. If no one steps forward, then I'll reserve the right to impose the favored penalty on everyone who was in the lab that evening: a question for the safety test... Mary -- Mary X. Tang, Ph.D. Stanford Nanofabrication Facility CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070 Stanford, CA 94305 (650)723-9980 mtang at stanford.edu http://snf.stanford.edu From mtang at snf.stanford.edu Wed Oct 13 07:49:43 2004 From: mtang at snf.stanford.edu (Mary Tang) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:49:43 -0700 Subject: Resist waste Message-ID: <416D4087.2050701@snf.stanford.edu> Manual coat users: Grant Korgan wins the Golden Tweezers award for the week. He's just cleaned up someone else's resist waste left at svgcoat. Everyone, please do what you can to prevent him or anyone else from winning again: clean up after yourselves! Oh, and by the way, he shares this award with Eric P, who very generously chipped away and vacuumed the resist spill in the flammables cabinet (thereby removing sll evidence from the scene of the crime -- safely, and without using solvent.) (Thanks guys!!) Mary -- Mary X. Tang, Ph.D. Stanford Nanofabrication Facility CIS Room 136, Mail Code 4070 Stanford, CA 94305 (650)723-9980 mtang at stanford.edu http://snf.stanford.edu